Ski Resorts in Fukui
Fukui has 3 ski areas on JAPANSNOWLINE, 1 of them with an official live camera. None of them are holding snow at the moment — the season has not started here yet. The highest terrain on file reaches about 883 m. Snow depth, snowfall, temperature and wind are refreshed every day.
Where It’s Snowing
Resorts with 3cm+ of snow in the last 48 hours. A ❄ marks anything over 15cm.
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Snow in Fukui
The 3 ski areas in Fukui get 320 cm of snow in a typical season, taking the middle value. That makes it 8th of the 31 prefectures with ski areas, well above the national median of 268 cm. The snowiest is Fukui Izumi Ski Resort at 339 cm, 141st in Japan.
Month by month, the most snow falls in January. By March it is down to 31% of January. That is a steeper fall than the national median of 55%: the snow here is concentrated in the first half of winter. March brings 33 cm here, less than the national median of 45 cm.
On the quality of what falls: 29% of winter days bring rain, snow falls at an average of −1.1 °C, and 25 days a winter deliver 5 cm or more (all prefecture medians). That is more rain than the national median of 16%, and it is warmer than the country as a whole. The best snow-quality score in the prefecture belongs to Fukui Izumi Ski Resort, 234th of 395 in Japan.
All ski areas in Fukui
The season has not started, so these are in order of typical snowfall.
| Ski area | Typical snowfall | Quality (Japan) | Powder Score | Base depth | Snow 48h | Temperature | Live Cameras | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fukui Izumi Ski Resort | 339 cm | #234 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 18.6 ℃ | |
| 2 | Kuzuryu Ski Resort | 320 cm | #295 | 10 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 20 ℃ | |
| 3 | Imajo 365 | 269 cm | #321 | 8 | 0 cm | 0 cm | 19.5 ℃ | 🎥 |
Ski areas near Fukui
Nearest first, by straight-line distance from the ski areas in Fukui (up to 22 km).
With only 3 ski areas in Fukui, crossing the prefectural border widens the choice. The nearest is Yogo Kogen Resort in Shiga, about 3 km away. The snowiest of these is Takasu Snow Park in Gifu at 366 cm a season, about the same as Fukui Izumi Ski Resort, the snowiest in Fukui (339 cm).
Deep snow close to a city
Ski areas averaging 300 cm or more, by straight-line distance from the nearest large city.
Snowfall is the 3-winter average from the ERA5 reanalysis, and the model runs low on mountain snow, by different amounts in different regions (the regional map on the Japan page adds that difference back; the figures on this page do not). Read the ranks and the comparisons rather than the centimetres. The month-by-month pattern uses the last 11 winters; rain days, snow-day temperature and 5 cm days use the last three. How we measure